Grigol Uratadze (1880 – 1959) was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 Social Democratic

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 politician, diplomat and author. His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a French

French language

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 manner.

In 1912, Mgeladze, together with Vlasa Mgeladze

Vlasa Mgeladze

Vlasa Mgeladze , alias Tria , was a Georgian social democratic revolutionary and a Bolshevik-turned-Menshevik also known as a participant of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of which he wrote a valuable account....

, was part of the Georgian delegation to Vienna

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 where Leon Trotsky

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 organized his short-lived union of social democratic factions as an alternative to Lenin’s narrow notion of party unity. A close associate of Noe Zhordania

Noe Zhordania

Noe Zhordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the Social Democratic revolutionary movement in Imperial Russia, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24, 1918 until March 18, 1921, when the Bolshevik Soviet...

, he figured prominently in the development of Menshevism

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 in Georgia and took an active part in the establishment of an independent republic of Georgia

Democratic Republic of Georgia

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 in 1918. As a Georgian plenipotentiary in Moscow

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, he signed a May 7, 1920 treaty

Treaty of Moscow (1920)

The Treaty of Moscow , signed between Soviet Russia and the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Moscow on May 7, 1920, granted Georgia de jure recognition of independence in exchange of the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to Bolshevik Russia.- Background...

 with Soviet Russia in which Georgia’s independence was de jure

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 recognized. The Red Army invasion of Georgia

Red Army invasion of Georgia

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 (1921) forced him into exile to France

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where he authored several monographs and numerous articles on the revolutionary movement in Georgia and the Soviet nationalities policy.